Removing the Java Quick Starter Add-on

[Craig Mitchell]

To turn it off, go to Control Panel -> Java -> Advanced Tab -> Miscellaneous -> Untick "Java Quick Starter"

[Craig Mitchell]

To turn it off, go to Control Panel -> Java -> Advanced Tab -> Miscellaneous -> Untick "Java Quick Starter"

[YUHAIAN]

Delete both keys at this location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions

I removed this add-on and another bad Microsoft add-on "Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant". ( see http://annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-600 )

Both bad to me.

[Anteaus]

I'm surprised that so many people are installing Java, anyway.

I can't recall when I last encountered a website using the plugin. On the desktop, Eclipse and Cisco IOS are about the only things I can think of that use it these days -and if there were non-Java alternatives I wouldn't use those either.

[BloodDumpster]

Running jqs -unregister is probably the best way to do this since it both stops the jqs.exe process from running and deletes the service.

[L.A.R. Grizzly]

I'm surprised that so many people are installing Java, anyway.

I can't recall when I last encountered a website using the plugin. On the desktop, Eclipse and Cisco IOS are about the only things I can think of that use it these days -and if there were non-Java alternatives I wouldn't use those either.

In my case, my Bit Torrent Client (Vuze) uses Java to operate.

[LoudNoise]

Since this was answered long ago I am going to lock it. If anyone has an issue not covered here please start a new thread.